Top 100 Quotes About Practise
#1. Nothing consumes itself so much as generosity, because while you practise it you're losing the wherewithal to go on practising it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#2. Practise your confidence tricks on the street and you risk getting shot by trigger-happy security guards; do it in the office and you get put on the board.
James Scudamore
#3. Cole felt like he'd stumbled into some arcane Templar practise, his sense of ease disappearing the moment the cups were pulled from the shelf.
Danika Stone
#4. School is practise for future life,practise makes perfect, nobody's perfect so why practise?
Green Day
#5. It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
Teresa Of Avila
#6. My constant endeavor is to know, believe, practise and prove that ' I ' am and will always be SUPERIOR to circumstance.
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#7. Every day I practise my flute. I've been doing it for decades and every day I find something new that inspires me for all the rest that I do in my days.
Philippe Kahn
#8. Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.
William Wilberforce
#9. The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practise.
Assata Shakur
#10. Still at the table, engaged no doubt in some kind of arcane flirtation, she for practise, he in pathetic earnest. Toby
Margaret Atwood
#11. Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
Ramakrishna
#13. Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
B.K.S. Iyengar
#14. You yourself must earnestly practise, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path
Gautama Buddha
#16. The more I practise, the luckier I become
Gary Player
#17. I love Pilates - I am a really big believer in it as a practise; I think it's fab.
Louise Nurding
#18. Thus, all sane moralists admit that one may sometimes tell a lie; but no sane moralist would approve of telling a little boy to practise telling lies, in case he might one day have to tell a justifiable one.
G.K. Chesterton
#19. Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.
Idries Shah
#20. One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#21. A pair of USN F-4B Phantom II's prepares to catapult from a USN carrier. Selection of this USN fighter was a departure from normal practise for the USAF. USN
Hugh Harkins
#22. If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
Maria Edgeworth
#23. We know that a large majority of the Australian society is extremely comfortable with a multicultural society, that we accept that living in a democracy means having a freedom to practise your religion within the limits of the law.
Tim Soutphommasane
#24. All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm thinking about it all day.
Serena Williams
#25. Sometimes women get devastated by failing. Athletes don't; they just know that means they've got to practise harder, and they've got to do something else differently.
Beth Brooke
#27. He never retorted that the artist is not a bricklayer at all, but a horseman whose business it is to catch Pegasus at once, not to practise for him by mounting tamer colts. This is hard, hot and generally ungraceful work, but it is not drudgery. For drudgery is not art, and cannot lead to it.
E. M. Forster
#28. This is what works for me: I practise crop rotation with my creative endeavours. I've found that when the nitrogen runs out in the soil in one field, it's best to leave it fallow for a while and cultivate another.
Andrew Macrae
#29. For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender.
Umar
#30. The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.
John Fowles
#31. Practise hard; whether you live or die does not matter. You have to plunge in and work, without thinking of the result.
Swami Vivekananda
#32. I will see you have a chance to practise your Legacies once your betrothed arrives.'
My what ?
Pittacus Lore
#33. The four cardinal pillars of the value culture I practise are: integrity; hard work and commitment; professional excellence; and commitment to society. I
Rajendra B. Aklekar
#34. There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create. The rest of mankind may be taxed and drudged, they are born for the stable, that is to say, to practise what they call professions.
Charles Baudelaire
#35. If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he ... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
John Locke
#36. The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.
Alan Bennett
#37. In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.
Malcolm De Chazal
#38. The devotions we practise in honor of the glorious Virgin Mary, however trifling they be, are very pleasing to her divine Son, and He
Various
#39. Such efforts show the truth of the remark of St. Ambrose: that the saints were no less liable than ourselves to fall into faults; but that they had greater care to practise virtue, and to correct the faults into which they fell.
Candide Chalippe
#41. It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.
Lynn Davies
#42. Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.
Socrates
#43. Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
Charles Caleb Colton
#44. First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
David Brainerd
#45. Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!
Johannes Tauler
#46. Practise love. Sitting alone in your room, be loving. Radiate love. Fill the whole room with your love energy.
Rajneesh
#47. Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.
Baldassare Castiglione
#48. Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.
Paul Watson
#49. If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities. Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
Ajahn Chah
#50. The carrying out into practise of a crude idea as is being generally done is, I hold, nothing but a waste of energy, money and time. My
Nikola Tesla
#51. Whenever we practise meditation, whether or not our meditation is clear, we are performing a virtuous mental action that is a cause of our future happiness and peace of mind.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#52. I'm not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that's what the British bequeathed us
Lee Kuan Yew
#53. The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#54. Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,
he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.
Woodrow Wilson
#55. If some people want to believe in Jesus, or Mohammed, or Buddha, or their ancestors, who is to say which is right and which wrong? It seems to me that most of the religions in the world are too dogmatic. They preach the 'live and let live' philosophy, but rarely do they practise it.
Gerald Durrell
#56. I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.
Alan Shearer
#57. In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it.
Frances Xavier Cabrini
#58. Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith and not so easy to practise it.
Fred Reinfeld
#60. Give me simplicity, that I may live,
So live and like, that I may know Thy ways,
Know them and practise them: then shall I give
For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.
George Herbert
#61. [W]hen you practise right meditation, you 'cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate your self.
Steve Hagen
#62. People who practise a religion have been found to be happier, healthier and less stressed than those who don't.
Harold George Koenig
#63. To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self.
By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.
Adi Shankara
#64. I practise selective deafness to hurtful remarks.
Scott Lynch
#65. He can practise self-examination for an hour without discovering any of those facts about himself which are perfectly clear to anyone who has ever lived in the same house with him or worked in the same office.
C.S. Lewis
#66. From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.
Jimmy Connors
#67. Everyone in your life is a 'practise person.' How you react to them allows you to see what you have to work on within yourself.
Susan Jeffers
#68. You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.
Atul Gawande
#69. I spend a lot of time idly. I go to sporting events, play my clarinet. I practise. But if you work every day, a certain amount on a steady basis, the work accumulates.
Woody Allen
#70. I regret,' said he, 'that I have no cup; but, as you see, I can practise phlebotomy with a bottle.
Rafael Sabatini
#71. We should all rehearse and practise the positives in our life, rather than doing what so many people do.
Richard Bandler
#72. Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise
Cecelia Ahern
#73. After the example of his fellow-doctors, cured all the illnesses of his patients, except those of which they died
a habit unhappily acquired by all the members of all the faculties in whatever country they may practise.
Jules Verne
#74. I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#75. You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.
Jello Biafra
#76. Talent alone can't give you a gold medal.There is practise,there is hard work and there is a will to succeed.
Keith Peters
#77. Revenge, revenge, revenge. Did you know that humans are the only living creatures to practise revenge? The interesting thing about revenge -
Jo Nesbo
#78. These are challenging and exciting times. No previous generation of Australians has ever had such an opportunity. No other country in the world has such an opportunity now. So long as we retain faith in ourselves, practise tolerance and reward initiative, we should be in no doubt about succeeding.
John Yu
#79. You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death
Gautama Buddha
#80. I started to practise shooting more seriously, more than once a week. I wasn't very good at it before, but I got a lot better. I've also become a little bit stronger on the tracks, too, which has increased my chances of success.
Tora Berger
#82. With respect to the distribution of your time the following is what I should approve. from 8. to 10 o'clock practise music. from 10. to 1. dance one day & draw another. from 1. to 2. draw on the day you dance, and write a letter next day. from 3. to 4. read French. from 4. to 5. exercise ...
Thomas Jefferson
#83. It is difficult to uproot fully grown plants; they become diseased and often perish. In Russia now they practise winter transplanting: a tree is dug up while it is in a dormant condition. In spring it comes back to life in a new place. A good method, especially as a tree has no memory.
Ilya Ehrenburg
#84. I practise law almost every day. Exclusively criminal work these days.
Scott Turow
#86. The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
Baz Luhrmann
#87. I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.
Michael Tippett
#88. To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.
John James Audubon
#89. If you practise deceit it will burrow down into dark places and change you.
Spoken by Boaz to his daughter, Star.
Rona V Flynn
#90. What is the use of knowing everything, if you never actually practise it? They are forever cooking and never eating
Anne Perry
#92. Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.
Philippa Perry
#93. To become proficient in any field you must practise. There is simply no achievement without practice and the more practice, provided it is done intelligently, the greater will the proficiency be and the sooner will it be attained.
Emmet Fox
#94. Let us desire that not our wills, but His will, be done.74 If we have not progressed as far as this, then, as I have said, let us practise humility, which is the ointment for our wounds; if we are truly humble, God, the Physician,75 will come in due course, even though He tarry, to heal us.
Teresa Of Avila
#95. Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.
Pope Francis
#96. Practise really seeing yourself in the mirror. This is NOT about examining yourself. This is about you looking beyond your external image to connect with your soul. Look upon yourself with complete appreciation and acceptance. You are so beautiful.
Miya Yamanouchi
#97. From a book you can learn the theory but it takes practise to learn how to live life.
Chloe Thurlow
#99. Everything about his character and manners was forcible and violent; there never was any moderation; many a day did he fast, many a year did he refrain from wine; but when he did eat, it was voraciously; when he did drink wine, it was copiously. He could practise abstinence, but not temperance.
James Boswell
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